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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
469•nar001•4h ago•222 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
154•bookofjoe•2h ago•135 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
447•theblazehen•2d ago•160 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
32•thelok•2h ago•2 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
33•mellosouls•2h ago•27 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
93•AlexeyBrin•5h ago•17 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
780•klaussilveira•20h ago•241 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
42•samasblack•2h ago•28 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
36•vinhnx•3h ago•4 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
59•onurkanbkrc•5h ago•3 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1034•xnx•1d ago•583 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
24•simonw•2h ago•23 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
180•alainrk•4h ago•255 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
27•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
171•jesperordrup•10h ago•65 comments

Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop

https://design-milk.com/vinklu-turns-forgotten-plot-in-bucharest-into-tiny-coffee-shop/
9•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
16•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
107•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
7•0xmattf•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
265•isitcontent•20h ago•33 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•43 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
278•dmpetrov•20h ago•148 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
36•matt_d•4d ago•11 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
546•todsacerdoti•1d ago•264 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
421•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
365•vecti•22h ago•166 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
65•helloplanets•4d ago•69 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
338•eljojo•23h ago•209 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
460•lstoll•1d ago•303 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
373•aktau•1d ago•194 comments
Open in hackernews

First kiss dates back 21M years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr43gq61g2qo
67•1659447091•2mo ago

Comments

cheque•2mo ago
I assume kissing comes from a parent chewing up food and then transferring it to the baby.

This is innate “caring” behavior.

Similarly, mammary glands are for providing milk/nutrition.

These get associated with primal needs and therefore the amygdala, and so is associated with strong emotion.

weatherlite•2mo ago
Chew your meat for you, pass it back and forth In a passionate kiss from my mouth to yours I like you
doubled112•2mo ago
What a terrible day to have basic literacy skills and an imagination.
jswelker•2mo ago
The song is 34 years old my friend.
fluoridation•2mo ago
It was a terrible day 34 years ago.
jswelker•2mo ago
One hacker to another says "I'm lucky to've met you."
weregiraffe•2mo ago
Or, kissing is just a subset of skin to skin touching, using sensitive body parts. Not so different from holding hands.
jimkleiber•2mo ago
Holding hands may also be from when babies latch on and don't let go because of the necessity of holding on to the parent. My friend's 2 year old grabbed my hand recently and it reminded me of their iron grip.
weregiraffe•2mo ago
And choking fetish naturally stems from the desire to strangle an annoying baby.

/s

rapnie•2mo ago
Yes, there's also the "Eskimo kiss" in Inuit culture. Rubbing noses together, as a climate adjusted habit. From Wikipedia:

> Rather, it is a non-erotic but intimate greeting used by people who, when they meet outside, often have little except their nose and eyes exposed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_kiss

weregiraffe•2mo ago
Any touch can be erotic, depending on the context. That's why I'm skeptical about kissing being special. People have sex with their entire bodies, not just using genitals.
dyauspitr•2mo ago
I think it’s a lot simpler. It’s touching parts of the body that have a lot of nerve endings. Lips, fingers and hands, genitals, noses etc.
jvanderbot•2mo ago
Kissing is so weird. You can make up a thousand just-so stories. You can imagine it meant totally different things through time and across cultures.

For me it just seems like yet another culturally-defined signal of intimacy. Like showing ankles or chests or saying this or that. Seems to me trying to make everything some hard wired evolutionary thing is a dead end.

omnicognate•2mo ago
Except that as the article says many animals kiss, not just humans.
dachris•2mo ago
Really funny on a farm when you see young calves "kissing" i.e. stick their noses/mouths together and lick each other's noses.
dyauspitr•2mo ago
No, kisses tingle, even completely emotionless ones. Lips have a lot of nerve endings.
pfannkuchen•2mo ago
Do hunter gatherers kiss near-universally? I think that would answer the question of whether it is nature or nurture.

I’m allowing for it to be suppressed at times by culture, but I would expect the instinctive behavior to win the majority of the time unless the instinctive behavior is somehow harmful in an environment different from the organism’s classic environment.

tylervigen•2mo ago
The researchers found a common ancestor of many different species that all conduct non-functional kissing. The surprising thing about the research is that it specifically implies kissing is not cultural!
ufko_org•2mo ago
OK, now date the last one :)
nozzlegear•2mo ago
I just smooched my wife and reset the timer.
ChrisMarshallNY•2mo ago
> humans and Neanderthals may even have smooched one another

More than just "smooching," if DNA has anything to say about it...